Adapted poem context: The speaker admires the Earth as vast, beautiful and full of water, grass, moving air, rivers, fields, cities, gardens, cliffs, islands and people. The wind is personified as moving over water, turning mills and speaking to itself on hills. Although the speaker feels tiny compared with the planet, the closing thought values the human ability to love and think. Adapted source item 102: In this poem, the poet describes the :

1. the Earth, its present and past
2. the plants that grow on the Earth
3. beauty and vastness of Earth
4. life in the cities